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> [Once you give an NFL player permission to have thoughts, you invite all kinds of mischief.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/once-you-give-an-nfl-player-permission-to-have-thoughts-you-invite/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

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> [In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/in-modern-american-politics-being-the-right-kind-of-ignorant-and/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

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> [You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/you-know-what-an-effective-deterrent-to-crime-is-jail-and-do-you-know/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

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> [In reality, everybody in Congress is a stand-in for some kind of lobbyist. In many cases it's difficult to tell whether it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/in-reality-everybody-in-congress-is-a-stand-in-for-some-kind-of/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

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> [What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/what-the-mortgage-bubble-was-all-about-was-big-banks-like-goldman/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

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> [People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we've become numb to the idea…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/people-are-beginning-to-become-disturbingly-comfortable-with-a-kind/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

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> [In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino scam that kills neighborhoods just like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/in-the-new-american-ghetto-the-nightmare-engine-is-bubble-economics-a/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

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> [This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/this-story-is-the-ultimate-example-of-american-s-biggest-political/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

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> [There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/there-really-are-two-americas-one-for-the-grifter-class-and-one-for/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

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> [We paid for this instead of a generation of health insurance, or an alternative energy grid, or a brand-new system of roads…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/we-paid-for-this-instead-of-a-generation-of-health-insurance-or-an/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

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## Other authors on Kind

## More by Matt Taibbi

> [ The Congressional Record will forever show that \[Obamacare\] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to keep from… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/the-congressional-record-will-forever-show-that-obamacare-was-passed/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

> [Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only thing that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/sniper-is-a-movie-whose-politics-are-so-ludicrous-and-idiotic-that/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

> [I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually the opposite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/i-get-the-cynicism-thing-all-the-time-although-i-don-t-really-know/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

> [It's really interesting that we've had this great Tea Party movement that is all about restoring free market capitalist values, but what they completely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/it-s-really-interesting-that-we-ve-had-this-great-tea-party-movement/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

> [To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/to-be-robbed-and-betrayed-by-a-fiendish-underground-conspiracy-or-by/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

> ['Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/nobody-goes-to-jail-this-is-the-mantra-of-the-financial-crisis-era/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

> [The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/the-basic-scam-in-the-internet-age-is-pretty-easy-even-for-the/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

> [For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/for-the-broadcast-business-to-be-successful-viewers-need-to-be-not/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

> [It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/it-s-not-a-stretch-to-say-the-whole-financial-industry-revolves/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

> [You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/you-know-what-an-effective-deterrent-to-crime-is-jail-and-do-you-know/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

> [Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/conspiracy-theorists-of-the-world-believers-in-the-hidden-hands-of/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

> [Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/like-wars-forest-fires-and-bad-marriages-really-stupid-laws-are-much/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

> [You can have somebody living next door to you and you can live in a completely different world from that person, which is definitely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/you-can-have-somebody-living-next-door-to-you-and-you-can-live-in-a/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

> [George Bush and John Ashcroft were religious in a scary way, but the rational among us could always take heart that, deep down, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/george-bush-and-john-ashcroft-were-religious-in-a-scary-way-but-the/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

> [“People aren't pissed just to be pissed. They're mad because a tiny group of crooks on Wall Street built themselves beach houses in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/people-aren-t-pissed-just-to-be-pissed-they-re-mad-because-a-tiny/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

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                        "text": "This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any twenty-first century crisis. We live in an economy that is immensely complex and we are completely at the mercy of the small group of people who understand it – who incidentally often happen to be the same people who built these wildly complex economic systems. We have to trust these people to do the right thing, but we can’t, because, well, they’re scum. Which is kind of a big problem, when you think about it.",
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